a woman's closely fitting garment for the foot and leg, typically of fine knitted nylon and held up by suspenders or an elasticated strip that grips the thigh
NAmer or archaic a man's long sock
He was dressed in knickerbockers, with red stockings — Henry James
a cylindrical knitted bandage for the leg
(also Christmas stocking) an ornamental stocking hung up by children on Christmas Eve, to be filled with presents
a band of white extending up to a horse's knee or hock
stockinged adj
stockingless adj
[from stock1 in the obsolete sense ‘stocking’]